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Old 97′s, Pleasant Grove to join Toadies at Dia De Los Toadies fest in September

Vaden Todd Lewis and the rest of the Toadies played downtown Dallas' Homegrown last month.

Since March the Toadies have been playing a 20-year-old record in its entirety. If that’s in any way exhausting or enervating, the band isn’t letting on: This morning, the band announced that at long last it will perform Rubberneck in Fort Worth — the band’s original hometown — in mid-September, during the latest installment of the annual Dia De Los Toadies fest scheduled to take place at Panther Island Pavilion on September 12 and 13.

“We’ve been playing Rubberneck from front to back nightly for months all over the country, but we haven’t played it in Fort Worth,” says guitarist Clark Vogeler in a release that just landed in the in-box. “That we’ll be doing it at our own festival makes perfect sense.”

Per this a.m.’s heads-up, the band — last seen ’round these parts headlining Homegrown in downtown Dallas last month — will be joined by the Old 97′s, Pleasant Grove, the Quaker City Nighthawks and Somebody’s Darling. For starters. More acts will be added in coming months. But I do like the 97′s on that bill. Shades of 1995, when the 97′s and Vogeler’s former band, the late-great Funland, split the “Stoned/Garage Sale” single down the middle. (Don’t remember that. Well, now you do.)

“I’ve been a fan of, and friends with, the Old 97′s for years,” says Clark. “We’ve been trying to work it out to have them at the festival for years, and I couldn’t be happier that it finally came together.”

As usual, the Toadies will play an acoustic set the first night (a sorta-sneak at the next record to come) and turn it up for the second. And they’ll do Rubberneck. Because “Possum Kingdom.” Which means any chance to repost the grown-up-language-y Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck …

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